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bakerstreet2017-11-09 06:08 pm
symbolisms) wrote in bakerstreet2017-11-09 06:08 pmEntry tags:
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 the picture prompt meme I — Comment with your character.
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symbolisms) wrote in bakerstreet2017-11-09 06:08 pm
the picture prompt meme I — Comment with your character.
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she's ruined everything, hasn't she? by saying it out loud?
more importantly, she's knocked him out of the moment, a moment where he needs to be exceptionally focused. mj lowers her camcorder, wearing that vulnerable truth on her face for just a split moment before she snaps her fingers. ) Go get him.
( he can do this. mj knows that he can. the rest can come later when there's not, y'know, the imminent threat of DEATH. )
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but there’s a huge lizard here, and it (note to self, find out the lizard’s pronouns) has hurt people, not just here and now, but before too. it could’ve hurt mj, and at the sound of her voice it looks towards her now.
peter doesn’t want anything to happen to mj, or anyone else he cares about, ever again. and that makes this easy, because that’s why he got started as spider-man. protecting people.
she’s right; the rest can come later.
he leaps.
there’s a nearby lightpost next to the road, and he uses webbing to flip over the top of it, shooting out another web to grab that manhole cover abandoned by the lizard. he jerks his hand back, and the cover flies neatly at the lizard’s head. the lizard goes down as peter lands in...well, what would’ve been a heroic pose if his bad leg hadn’t immediately dropped him.
from all too close, there’s a blare of sirens, which means it’s time for spider-man to make an exit. the lizard’s too stunned to get up anytime soon (which peter does, actually, feel a little bad about), so he swings back to the alley where he ditched his regular clothes. and...hopes mj doesn’t follow him, because he’s not actually sure what to say to her. ]
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her confidence rests firmly in the belief that not having superpowers doesn't make you powerless, mind, but she also isn't inspired to go out every single night to save a whole city expecting nothing in return, like peter. give her a baseball bat and she'll go to town, but -- you know?
and maybe it hadn't ever been as clear to her as it is now. there's no divorcing peter from this stupid and brave and stupid boy.
she doesn't have that kind of bravery. she's worn a mask her entire life for different reasons. to hide for different reasons.
never has she felt more exposed, and it only distantly occurs to her that he must feel the same way, if not more so. she's stripped him of the red and blue armor, knocked down a barricade that up until now had kept them both safe. she watches him go, and doesn't have the heart to follow.
she runs away, because her heart is a runner, and that's what she does best. )
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now that the immediate danger's past, and the cops can take care of the lizard, and he's, literally, changing back to peter parker -- ohhhh my god. mj looked at spider-man, watched him get beat up (not a fine moment, there), and called peter's name. while looking straight at spider-man.
which means -- which means she knows? she might know? she has to know? but how could she know? sure, she wouldn't be the first person to figure it out, which is actually a terrible thing he needs to work on, but most people don't. not his aunt, not his classmates, not his neighbors. he's pretty careful. and peter parker is, he knows, pretty forgettable. not really what most people picture when they picture a superhero. how long could she have possibly known? how does she even --?
she knows. holy shit. this is so, so, so bad.
because the mask exists for a reason. it lets him live a normal life. it keeps his aunt and his friends safe. it...
she knows, and he's about to hobble back out and find her, and she definitely saw spider-man hurt his leg.
except this turns out to not be a problem. he comes back out to find her and she's gone, nowhere in sight and nowhere near the restaurant. she isn't one of the people rounded up by the police and paramedics, either, for statements and medical examinations and -- yep, they find peter before he can pretend he just happened to be around. which means he has to give a statement (lying to the police, sort of, that's definitely going to keep him up at night), and be seen medically (though at least he gets a lot of unnecessary advice about avoiding swelling instead of being taken to a doctor, because the turnaround time on his healing would be really awkward to explain), and. WORST OF ALL. it means his aunt gets called to pick him up.
on the bright side, she buys his excuse about tripping and falling over some debris. this is the only bright side. peter gets it; he knows how scared she is of something happening to him every time he goes out the door. he can't blame her, after what happened to his uncle. he really, really gets it. but, also, she goes off about how unsafe this city is getting at least twice a day after taking him home from a crime scene, wants more regular text updates on where he is when he's out, and, generally, is a lot more worried.
(there's a part of him that realizes there's never going to be a good time to tell her about being spider-man, and nothing is going to make her like it. mostly, he ignores that part of himself.)
he texts mj to make sure she got out okay, and she replies, and that's...it. for days. of course, he could be trying harder; peter would never admit to avoiding her, but it's not like he doesn't know where she lives, or how to call her, or how to text her again about...literally anything.
so, hey, just wanted to check in about you calling spider-man my name? pretty crazy right because obviously he's not me that'd be ridiculous. yeah, no.
instead, he talks to ned about it. a lot. they run through theories like, maybe she knows another peter? maybe peter heard her wrong? maybe she's known all along? maybe she just figured it out that day? maybe she's actually a supervillain in disguise? (they both nixed that one almost as soon as it was said).
okay, but what's the big deal if she knows? ned points out. it's, like, the coolest thing ever.
which definitely feels way wrong and off-base, even if peter can't articulate why. she's not supposed to, because no one is.
here's what he does know: nothing's changed since then, even if he's avoiding mj and she's, possibly, avoiding him. his aunt doesn't suddenly know. her aunt doesn't seem to know. her video doesn't make it to youtube. the ones that do are mostly shaky footage of the fight in the restaurant or of the moment when he took out the lizard, nothing else. if she knows, and he think she does, she hasn't told anybody.
or maybe she's just disappointed? a superhero should be someone totally awesome and badass, not...her nerdy neighbor.
finally, finally, he decides he just. has to talk to her about it. he has to know. he's going to knock on her door, and they're going to talk, and --
-- and she just opened the door before he got up the nerve to knock. that just happened. ]
...uh. Hi.